Queen Studios Event with Batman Statue Collector

[Augen]

Originally Posted by qz33

It's a male dominated hobby.
Accurate female sculpts could certainly be put to... unintended purposes.

Look, I'm sure there are people that do...things with their statues of all sclaes. I have friends that work in hospital and trust me, people do things with any household object for not their intended purposes.

There isn't consensus on this or Gal Gadot Wonder Woman wouldn't be made. I'm not sure the worst consequences of making them would be that frankly a person wouldn't do without them.

[pdenham]

Always a chance they could relent at some point.

I would think this is a Disney edict, not necessarily the individual actresses.

Disappointing to be sure- but with those off the table now, there's a little more clarity on what options are as far as stuff in this price range for the foreseeable future.

To that end, I'm a little surprised Todd still has Alita available. I wonder if anyone that was considering that one was waiting to see some potential Marvel females first?

[qz33]

Could be either way. Lots of actresses naturally realize the focus on their looks. Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Gwenyth Paltrow were already established and had negotiating power prior to the Marvel movies. Could just be easier to have a blanket policy than to trickle down to actresses' individual contracts.

But yeah I'd still say it's Disney and it just being a knee jerk better safe than sorry reaction. Over time seeing the males do well they could relent. Could just be a money move too. There'd be just so much more fervor for the females.

And I wasn't referring to individual "acts" but gray market recasts and such especially giving a license to a Chinese company. A highly accurate Scarlett "doll" would get a lot of attention and not the kind Disney would prefer.

[pdenham]

The possibility of recasts being used for other product never even entered my mind.

I could see Disney lawyers being sharp enough to be aware of that potentiality.

At the same time, no one is really stopping any of those doll manufacturers from hiring talented sculptors themselves and working towards likenesses that skirt the line between "inspired by" or sort of resembles and blatant trademark infringement (or however an actor's license is legally classified).

Since 1:1 is off the table, I wonder how long it will take to see a good 1:2 of the female characters?
Like everyone else I'm curious and looking forward to seeing how well they do the 1:4 scales in polystone- but if they dropped the news tomorrow that they were doing 1:2s of Black Widow and Scarlet Witch for the US market, I'd be jumping out of my skin in anticipation.

As well as stocking up on a years supply of Ramen.

[Augen]

Originally Posted by qz33

Could be either way. Lots of actresses naturally realize the focus on their looks. Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Gwenyth Paltrow were already established and had negotiating power prior to the Marvel movies. Could just be easier to have a blanket policy than to trickle down to actresses' individual contracts.

But yeah I'd still say it's Disney and it just being a knee jerk better safe than sorry reaction. Over time seeing the males do well they could relent. Could just be a money move too. There'd be just so much more fervor for the females.

And I wasn't referring to individual "acts" but gray market recasts and such especially giving a license to a Chinese company. A highly accurate Scarlett "doll" would get a lot of attention and not the kind Disney would prefer.

I think if demand is there people make such products already. I guess we will see if Gadot "dolls" start popping up all over or not soon with QS and IS coming out.

[qz33]

Originally Posted by pdenham

The possibility of recasts being used for other product never even entered my mind.

I could see Disney lawyers being sharp enough to be aware of that potentiality.

At the same time, no one is really stopping any of those doll manufacturers from hiring talented sculptors themselves and working towards likenesses that skirt the line between "inspired by" or sort of resembles and blatant trademark infringement (or however an actor's license is legally classified).

Since 1:1 is off the table, I wonder how long it will take to see a good 1:2 of the female characters?
Like everyone else I'm curious and looking forward to seeing how well they do the 1:4 scales in polystone- but if they dropped the news tomorrow that they were doing 1:2s of Black Widow and Scarlet Witch for the US market, I'd be jumping out of my skin in anticipation.

As well as stocking up on a years supply of Ramen.

No but assembling that talent and getting to such a design is a much more significant hurdle than having a licensed company pay for, do all the work for them, and all they have to do is make casts. Especially if the licensee has access to proprietary assets.
There have never been products so accurate as these recent busts. So maybe just a little trepidation.
And Disney is in a much better position to be as conservative with their licenses as they please than Warner Bros. MCU is a gold standard.

As accurate as these IS/QS products are I wish they would get away from polystone all together.

[BigMo]

Interesting that Captain Marvel bust came out then, they got away with it because her face was half covered. But that could be the only Female Marvel Bust we ever get. I think the price just went up on this.